<TITLE>13. Par 53-56</TITLE>L-53 Samson said, "Well, I'll just raise, and shake myself, just like I've always done. And then when I do it God will be there. I just presume He's there." But he found out He was gone.
You know what? I believe that the church ought to get back to holiness again. We ought to get back to the right way of living. See, we presume that because we receive the Spirit, because that we danced in the Spirit, because that we've done these things that we have done, and God's blessed us, and we seen the healing meetings, and we seen the revivals, and so forth, we just figure that that's all right.
"Now, when we do that we'll fashion it down, settle down, because we got a great building, we got a nice denomination, we got all this. We got the highest class of this, the best church in this city, and all these things till we can bring the world in, and say, 'See, our piano, our organ, and our so-and-so, is just as good as yours. And our benches is, pews is as good as yours; our preacher is just as highly educated as yours." We're presuming that God's still with us when He isn't. See? Just remember that.

L-54 When we begin to see the miracles and signs and wonders of God, we see the power of God come down, and then see people live different, clean up their lives, fuss, all tempers, high-tempered fussing, stewing, fighting with one another, members disorderly (That's right.), all kinds of sin among us, unbelief...
Somebody preach the Word of God and say, "God said you must be borned again. If you can't, you can't even get in."
"I disagree with that."
And say you got the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit won't deny His own Word. Got to stay with that Word, 'cause He's the One Who spoke It. If I speak a word, and then deny what I said, then my word's no good. The Holy Spirit's got to keep what He said. And this Word written here is the Word of the Holy Spirit. I believe it. That's right. Now, we find out that God...?... We need more holiness. We need to be cleaned up, our churches.

L-55 Samson, he thought, "Well, I'll--I'll just..." Went down there, and lived with this prostitute, and everything. "Then she finally told me to do this, and I finally got by with it. And then all this, and... Oh, I--I really told her the truth, that here's where it's all about. It was like this, and I--I think it'll be all right. I presume He's with me." But when he got up and shook himself, he found out that his power was gone.
I think today, brother, when we look around upon our churches the way they're going, it's time to shake ourselves. Something's wrong. We're presuming that we're running all right. We're presuming that we're doing fine.

L-56 Like I was speaking not long ago to some of our Business Men, our brethren. I said in a certain meeting that we were in, over in--across the seas... And the brethren was there, and they had a meeting. And they was telling how the Lord had blessed them. And they had a little bitty business on the corner, and they'd--they got--give their life to Christ; and they had a fleet of Cadillacs now.
So I said to the brethren; I said, "Don't say that. That's contrary. That ain't the way the first Pentecostals did. They got rid of what they had and give to the poor. Yes. Them men are businessmen. They own factories, and everything else. You've got to give them something that they don't know about."


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